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Grand old Haydn, sick and worn out,
was carried for the last time into the music
hall, and there he heard his own oratorio
of the "Creation." History says that as
the orchestra came to that famous passage,
"Let there be Light" the whole audience
rose and cheered, and Haydn waved his
hand toward Heaven and said: SIT came
from there" Overwhelmed with his own
music, he was carried out in his chair, and
as he came to the door he spread his hand
toward the orchestra as in benediction.
Haydn was right when he waved his
hand toward Heaven and said: SIT comes
from there" Music was born in Heaven,
and it will ever have it's highest throne in
Heaven; and I want you to understand
that our departed friends who were pas
sionately fond of music here are now at the
headquarters of harmony. think that the
grand old church tunes that died when
your grandfathers died have gone with
them to Heaven.
Again, remark that those of our de-
parted Christian friends who in this world
had very strong military spirit are
now in armies celestial and out on
bloodless battles. There are hun.
dreds of people born soldiers. They
can not help it. They belong to regiments
in time of peace. They can not hear q
drum or fife without trying to keep step to
the music. They are Christians, and when
they fight they fight on the right side. Now
when these, our Christian friends who had
natural and powerful military spirit, en-
tered Heaven they entered the celestial
| army.
The door of Heaven hardly opens but
you hear a military demonstration. David
cried OUT "The chariots of God are twenty
thousand" Elisha saw the mountains filled
with celestial cavalry. st. John said:
"The armies which are in Heaven followed
him on white horses" Now, when those
who had the military spirit on earth sane
titled entered glory, suppose they right
| away enlisted in some heavenly campaign /;
the volunteered right away. There must
| needs be in Heaven soldiers with soldier
| ly spirit. There are grand parade days
when the King reviews the troops. There
| must be armed escort sent out to bring up
| from earth to Heaven those who were
I more than conquerors. There must be
crusades ever being fitted out for some
| part Of Gods dominions-battles, blood
| less, groanless, painless. Angels of evil
| to be fought down and fought back. Other
rebellious worlds to be conquered. Worlds
to be put to the torch. Worlds to be
| saved. Worlds to be demolished. Worlds
| to be sunk. Worlds to be hoisted.
But what are our mathematical friends
to do in the next world? They found their
joy and their delight in mathematics.
There was more poetry for them in Euclid
than in John Milton. They were as pas
sionately fond of mathematics as Plato,
who wrote over his door: "Let no one
enter here who is not acquainted with
geometry" What are they doing now:
They are busy with figures yet. No place
in all the universe like Heaven for figures
Numbers infinite, distances infinite, calcu-
lations infinite. The didactic DR.. Dick
said he really thought that the redeemed
in Heaven spent some of their time with
the higher branches of mathematics.
Some Of our transferred and transported
metaphysicians. What are they doing
| now? Studying the human mind, only
under better circumstances than they
used to study it. They used to study the
mind sheathed in the dull human
body. Now the spirit is unsheath-
ed-now they are studying the sword out.
side the scabbard. Have you any doubt
about what Sir William Hamilton is doing
in Heaven, or what Jonathan Edwards is
doing in Heaven, or the multitudes or
earth who had passion for metaphysics
sanctified by the grace Of God? No diff
Guilty in guessing. Metaphysics, glorious
metaphysics, everlasting metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian friends
who are explorers doing now? Exploring
yet, but with lightning locomotion, with
vision microscopic and telescope at the
same time. A continent at glance. A
world in a second. A planetary system il
a day. Christian John Franklin no more
in disabled Erebus pushing toward the
North Pole, Christian De Long NJ
more trying to free blockaded Jeanette
from the ice. Christian Livingstone
no more amid African malarias trying
to make revelation of dark continent
but all of them in the twinkling of an ey,
taking in that which was unapproachable
Mont Blanc scaled without alpenstock
The coral depth of the ocean explored
without a diving bell. The mountains un
barred and opened without Sir Humphrey
Days safety lamp.
What are our departed friends who found
their chief joy in study doing now? Study
ing yet, but instead of a few Thousand
volumes on few shelves, all the volumes
of the universe open before them-geologic
ornithologic, conchologic, botanic, astrono
mic, philosophic. No more need of Leyden
jars, or voltaic piles, or electric batteries
standing as they do face to face with tn,
facts Of the universe.
What are the historians doing now
Studying history yet, but not the histor,
of few centuries of our planet only, Blu
the history of the eternities-whole mil
lenniums before Xenophon, or Herodotus
or Moses, or Adam was born. History O
one world, history of all world.
What are our departed astronomers do
ing? Studying astronomy yet, but no
through the dull lens of earthly observa
tory, but with one stroke of wing goin,
right out to Jupiter, and Mars, and Mer
curry, and Saturn, and Orion, and tn
Pleiades- overtaking and passing swiftes
comet in their fight. Herschel died ,
Christian. Have you any doub
about what Herschel is doing
Isaac Newton died Christian
Have you any doubt about wha
Isaac Newton is doing? Joseph Henri,
died Christian. Have you any doub
what Joseph Henry is doing? They wer
in discussion, all these astronomers O
earth, about what the aurora borealis was